You wouldn’t expect a 45-year-old book on programming to be relevant today, but Fred Brooks’s “The Mythical Man-Month” contains many lessons about project management & design that should resonate with modern coders, problem-solvers, & creators.

Video: http://youtu.be/HuJfEHnjZyY

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/02/20/182.-Lessons-From-'The-Mythical-Man-Month'.html

Many shower praise on utilitarianism as The Objectively Correct Ethical System, but is it possible they’re putting the cart before the horse? Do its uncomfortable edge cases give us cause for caution?

Video: http://youtu.be/QA2JwEhJss8

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/02/05/181.-Issues-of-Utilitarian-Ethics.html

Scribbling on chalkboards is antiquated, pass…and perhaps the most powerful technology we’ve developed to date to discover abstract truths.

Video: http://youtu.be/nLXhqT3PCds

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/01/23/180.-On-Chalk-and-Cognition.html

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Video: http://youtu.be/4Uz1trCLfww

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/01/08/179.-Rationality-Without-Justification.html

You probably learned how to do long multiplication by hand in school. Computers used the same algorithm to multiply large numbers together, until computer scientists discovered much, much faster methods, including one published this year that’s “perfect!”

Video: http://youtu.be/UK9XUAfRhCc

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/11/20/178.-Multiplication-Menagerie.html

How is philosophy like fashion? …that’s not a setup for a pun, I promise.

Video: http://youtu.be/kJWmmvLInzo

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/11/06/177.-A-Philosophy-on-Philosophy.html

Violent crime quadrupled in the US between 1970 & 1990, then fell the same amount. What could have caused such a dramatic trend? Economics? Culture? …Lead?

Video: http://youtu.be/lt2yD8RTbrI

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/09/25/176.-The-Lead-Crime-Hypothesis.html